8 April 2010Although some uncertainty remains, the most recent infrared data from the VIRTIS spectrometer seem to confirm the suspicion. "We are pretty sure that Venus still has volcanic activity," say Jörn Helbert and Nils Müller from the DLR Institute of Planetary Research – members of the VIRTIS team.

17 July 2009Scientists at DLR and SRON have found a new area of deployment for the SCIAMACHY atmospheric instrument on the European environmental satellite Envisat. In March and June 2009, the spectrometer looked away from its normal target, Earth, towards our neighbouring inner planet Venus and investigated its radiation at visible light and near-infrared wavelengths.